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The Mars Express spacecraft collected new images of the surface of Mars, showing craters in the dust and ice of the Red Planet's surface,The mission, operated by the European Space Agency , collected data from the Utopia Planitia, a major basin in Mars' northern hemisphere that is approximately twice the size of the Sahara Desert and is largely covered in ice.
The new images reveal impressive features of the icy plains of Utopia Planitia, including dark regions under the ice and massive craters.Scientists believe the Utopia Planitia basin, which has a diameter of approximately 2,050 miles, was formed more than 10 million years ago when it snowed more regularly on Mars. Studying this region could provide further insight into the evolution of the basin over millennia.
The second-largest crater on the left in the image above features something called"brain terrain," which refers to the brain-like texture on the icy surface. In its statement, ESA explains that brain terrain is most typically found on the northern plains and southern highlands of Mars.Brain terrain is"
where material has become deformed and warped in a concentric pattern that resembles the complex patterns and ridges found on the surface of the human brain," ESA says in its statement. The darker region in the images, meanwhile, shows where the ground has contracted under the heavy surface ice.to China's Zhurong rover, which reached the Red Planet last year. The Zhurong rover relies on the orbiting spacecraft to relay its data back to Earth.
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